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To: skeeter

Absolutely. All you need to do is compare survival rates.

The Germans usually treated Allied prisoners more or less properly.

Russian, Polish and other subhuman POWs were a different story entirely.


12 posted on 07/12/2006 10:15:15 AM PDT by Restorer
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To: Restorer

One wonders on this: the attitude towards the Slavs was little better than that to Jews, etc. But the Germans actually considered themselves relatives of the Brits/French/US, could this be a leftover from when Kaiser Bill was King George's cousin?


20 posted on 07/12/2006 10:20:26 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (www.stjosephssanford.org)
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To: Restorer
Russian, Polish and other subhuman POWs were a different story entirely.

I guess being a slav in a German camp would be about on par with being a allied guest of the emporer. Maybe worse.

21 posted on 07/12/2006 10:20:47 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Restorer

Conditions at Luftwaffe camps, especially for Allied air crews, was light years better than those at camps run by the SS.


31 posted on 07/12/2006 10:25:58 AM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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To: Restorer
Russian, Polish and other subhuman POWs were a different story entirely.

Worst of all for Soviet POWs was that for the few that survived the war, their reward was to be sent to Siberia, if not killed, by Stalin, who considered Soviet POWs as traitors.

39 posted on 07/12/2006 10:32:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Restorer

Will the families of the million German soldiers who died in Soviet death camps get compensation?


102 posted on 07/12/2006 11:25:58 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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